Mr ap Mihangel applied for the sentence to be adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.
Speaking before a packed courtroom, the victim, now 18, choked up several times as she asked Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Ingram to sentence Mr. Weberman to a maximum sentence of 117 years.
In fact, the government prosecutors had wanted to sentence Ring to 20 years until Judge Huvelle ruled that she would only allow a sentence of 50 months to be recommended by the government prosecutors.
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Eddie Slovik, went through the process from confession to court-martial to sentence to execution by firing squad.
If Breivik is found to be sane, the court could sentence him to the traditional 21-year prison sentence, the maximum term for a homicide or terror act conviction, but he must be released after serving that sentence.
He added many burglaries were committed to feed a drug habit, and it would be more effective to sentence them to treatment programmes than jail.
The judge dismissed four potential jurors because of their opposition to capital punishment. (This judge later served on South Carolina's Supreme Court, and landed in some hot water by professing to find racist jokes inoffensive and funny.) It took the jury less than three hours to convict Mr Elmore, and an additional 50 minutes to sentence him to death.
He faces up to a 15-year sentence, but will be allowed to argue that the sentence should be satisfied by the seven years he has been in custody.
India's Supreme Court has rejected a petition by a death row prisoner to commute his sentence to life in jail.
He has the power to reduce the sentence to life in prison, although such reductions of jury-imposed sentences are rare.
Defence counsel Jonathan Crowe said Bryant had written a letter to the court in which he said he proposed to use his sentence to change his behaviour.
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' You merely have to say that sentence out loud to see that it is not English, but sounds like the awkward sentence of a recently arrived foreigner.
Within hours, a hastily convened Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy met, chaired by the attorney-general, and advised the president to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, which he did.
This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld Judge Hiller Zobel's decision last November to change a murder verdict against Miss Woodward into one of involuntary manslaughter and to sentence her merely to the 279 days she had already spent in prison.
Conservative Richard Graham is leading a campaign to increase the maximum sentence to up to 14 years.
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In order to get a jail sentence to stick, prosecutors must prove the individual has made plans to carry out such a threat.
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He said the court had taken all matters into consideration and noted the case could have been prosecuted at an earlier date, which led the court to impose a lower sentence to date from Friday rather than a backdated tariff.
Mr Straw's most recent intervention was on 30 January when he contacted the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole to urge them to commute the death sentence to a prison term and reiterate Britain's opposition to capital punishment.
Judges at London's Court of Appeal agreed with Dominic Grieve the sentence had been "unduly lenient" and raised Khosravi's sentence to 11 years.
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The death sentence was confirmed on Wednesday for Ali al-Taweel, and the sentence to life imprisonment for Ali Shamlo.
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The maximum punishment for second-degree murder is a life sentence, but the sentence is left to the discretion of the court.
Violators are subject to a sentence of up to 10 years imprisonment for obstruction and five years for perjury.
Liam Lawlor will go to jail on Wednesday unless he appeals the sentence to the Supreme Court.
Last month judges ordered Dutt to surrender by 18 April after reducing his sentence to five years from six.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is understood to have written to Governor Perry asking for Elliott's sentence to be commuted to life.
One sensible measure might be to require every sex offender serving a jail sentence to attend a treatment programme as a condition of release.
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It is believed to be the longest sentence given to any Greek politician convicted of corruption.
The judge said Hazel Stewart was entitled to some reduction in sentence compared to Howell's because he planned and carried out both murders and persuaded her to take part.
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